Did she just fucking say "these chickens never never feel the sun on their backs or the earth beneath their feet"? What a nut job.


mmm...meat machines

prolific and readily available...."May they take your order??"

I think I'd like to be even more involved in this process. I'd like to go to KFC, head into the back, pick out my chicken(s), name them, and pull the lever myself while listening to Elton John's "Circle of Life".

hakuna matata!

750 million chickens. mmmmm, that sounds delicious

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I had no idea cruelty was so delicious. I guess I should start putting cruelty in some of my meals.

I'm going to start waterboarding my mac&cheese and stabbing my raman noodles.

As someone who raised chickens when I was a lad, I find most of Pam's arguments don't exactly go along with what we see. The living by thousands, eh that's a decent argument and something that's fundamentally difficult to get away with as you can clearly see it. Now we never raised more than say ~ 30 chickens at a time. I doubt that the lameness is due to weighing too much but rather due to being trampled by the other 9,999 chickens in your roost. We probably had one or two chickens in a batch that may receive some type of injury due to trampling by the others. Incidentally, the birds are debeaked to keep them from attacking one another. I cant speak to the degree that the birds are debeaked in the video but if left to their own devices, you would have a far greater number of birds injured from the rest of the flock if they were not debeaked. Like in most large group of animals, the smaller, weaker animals are often brutalized by the rest of the brood. Debeaking for us was similar to clipping your nails, I've never seen blood on the beaks of birds we've done.
As far as the treatment of the birds by the slaughterhouse and when gathering them, I can sympathize. I feel more, however, for the end user of the meat than I do for the birds. When we slaughtered chickens, we never stunned them before cutting their throats, BTW. I also doubt that the chickens see boiling water before they're dead. Part of cutting their throat is to remove the blood which will only turn to a nasty goo once boiled and who wants that in their chicken?
The real problem here is that demand for the chicken (KFC or otherwise) is driving the sheer numbers of chickens raised and slaughtered. The cost of making the changes that PITA is asking for is very high compared to the profits these guys might be making and the timeliness with which they can deliver their product. A lot of the same arguments could be made for beef, pork or any other meat.
If everyone could make a living doing bad TV shows, Pam, we would (er, or might).

don't be QRUEL

she has points.. I love KFC chicken but I dont eat it meerly because of its unhealthy grease they use.. But I think they make plenty of money they can fix some of these things.. suffering needlessly is uncalled for, harming the animals needlessly post human slaughtering ought to be enforced.. while sometimes when dealing with thousands of animals, mistakes like not killing them before boiling in scalding water might be eventual, they can certainly try harder to minimize its instances..

feeding chickens chemicals is also something somewhat alarming as far as quality of the chickens life as well as human consumption of said chemical's from the chicken itself..

The area where we just moved from in NC was full of these farms supplying Perdue. (thank god we're gone) OMG the smell that would travel. Oh in the summer it was even worse.

Mmmmm Chicken!

Great sift, chicken is fucking delicious.

lol at washed-out old celebrities.

Morality aside, KFC has disgusting, disgusting food. Popeye's is infinitely better.

Oh and now, they're offering a 1 million dollar reward to the first scientist who can come up with lab grown meat to satisfy meat eaters without killing any animals. Winner must create and and begin selling by 2012.

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